Eating meat on Friday

[TuAutem]

I’m trying to figure out how to get my fiance to comply with this. The funny thing is he’s the Catholic. I’m still in the process of converting! He’s very much a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, and woe unto me if I serve him even a single meal without meat in it!
I want to comply with this teaching, but he makes it extraordinarily difficult. (he makes a lot of things difficult, is it any wonder I’m choosing St. Rita as my patron? LOL I do love him though, and am doing my best.)
What can I do?
For what it’s worth, he loathes fish and sea food.

Sounds like St. Rita’s a good choice!

I would recommend that you just don’t eat meat on Friday; his choices are his responsibility, ultimately, not yours, though you should pray for him, and set a good example. If it’s your job to cook, though, and he wants meat, then there’s no way that you are doing anything wrong just by cooking meat on Fridays. Just stick to the potatoes and veggies on your own plate.

 

[TuAutem]

We are required to abstain from meat only on Fridays of Lent and Ash Wednesday. If you want to abstain as your penance, do it, you don’t need to ask permission from strangers.

why would you ask if it is permitted? has someone unkind said something to make you think it is not?

I’m guessing perhaps the OP is in England, or has heard about the new changes in England? The bishops here are stopping the special permission to substitute another form of abstinence on Fridays outside Lent, meaning that abstinence from meat is once again becoming mandatory on Fridays year-round here (for those people who fall in the ages and circumstances under which abstinence is to be observed). The aim being to promote a more visible sign of Catholic unity than having everyone do their own form of penance does.

However, this change only applies to residents of England and Wales. People in the US, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, or anywhere else need to check their own diocesan or bishop’s conference’s rules on the discipline to follow.

 

[Sailor_Kenshin]

Could you please give me one example of Purgatory being mentioned in the Bible? Also, Christ suffered and died only once. He doesn’t continue to sacrifice himself during every communion service; as there is no need. His sacrifice on the cross was sufficient.

Could you also show me in scripture where we are to abstain from meat once per week?

You don’t understand the meaning of the Mass. Christ is not sacrificed again, but we ENTER INTO His Eternal Sacrifice.

That’s the sort of trouble Sola Scriptura leads to.

 

[prodigal-sun]

Could you please give me one example of Purgatory being mentioned in the Bible? Also, Christ suffered and died only once. He doesn’t continue to sacrifice himself during every communion service; as there is no need. His sacrifice on the cross was sufficient. (1st Peter 3:18, Hebrews 9:27-28, Hebrews 10:10)…we can reflect as often as we would like on his sacrifice, but we are not mandated to abstain from eating.

Prayer is essential, and fasting could be a good thing to do to draw closer to God. Giving up meat on one day each week seems a bit legalistic. If you are happy doing so, there is nothing wrong with it, but it is not something that should be forced on anyone. Paul had some rather harsh things to say to many in the church at Galatia; concerning forcing your convictions on others.

Could you also show me in scripture where we are to abstain from meat once per week?

Since this is a thread about fasting we will keep it focused on this. For info on purgatory just type it into the search engine and you will find countless threads and articles that I will use to counter any of your protestant man made theology. As for this topic Catholics are mandated to fast or do another such penance on Fridays. The Catholic Church (the one started by Jesus Christ) has been given the authority to bind and loose and this discipline has been mandated to us for the good of all!

Peace brother!

 

[Paxvobis]

Since this is a thread about fasting we will keep it focused on this. For info on purgatory just type it into the search engine and you will find countless threads and articles that I will use to counter any of your protestant man made theology. As for this topic Catholics are mandated to fast or do another such penance on Fridays. The Catholic Church (the one started by Jesus Christ) has been given the authority to bind and loose and this discipline has been mandated to us for the good of all!

Peace brother!

:clapping:

 

[Stitch]

I’m guessing perhaps the OP is in England, or has heard about the new changes in England? The bishops here are stopping the special permission to substitute another form of abstinence on Fridays outside Lent, meaning that abstinence from meat is once again becoming mandatory on Fridays year-round here (for those people who fall in the ages and circumstances under which abstinence is to be observed). The aim being to promote a more visible sign of Catholic unity than having everyone do their own form of penance does.

However, this change only applies to residents of England and Wales. People in the US, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, or anywhere else need to check their own diocesan or bishop’s conference’s rules on the discipline to follow.

Meat less Fridays will come in effect on16th September 2011 in England and Wales. Here’s a document that the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales have prepared.

dioceseofsalford.org.uk/files/News%20Items/110818FridayPenance.pdf

 

[Willy_Jose]

Some more food for thought:

All kinds of nutritious food are good, provided you use them according to the natural law. That is why it is fitting to give up some of these good things temporarily as a part of spiritual discipline. In the biblical times it is customary to rejoice through feasting on meat and wine, that is why meat is an example of a good which satisfies basic physical desire. Spiritual discipline involves mastering our physical desires. If meat is given up in that context, towards cultivating spiritual discipline, then we read the canon law correctly. For example, Daniel abstained for three weeks (Daniel 10:1-3). Also, St. Paul was certainly not against abstaining from meat (1 Cor 8:13), what he was against was a false doctrine that says there is an intrinsic evil in a good that God made.